I'd be more suspicious of a person coming to my door purely just to educate me on cool science things. I wouldn't be able to shake the feeling that he's trying to sell me something.
At least with religion I know their game and I know I'm not interested but science that's interesting.
They spend an hour talking about the possibility of life on Venus then they whip out the vacuum cleaner
Better than a set of steak knives. Because that conversation goes very differently.
They sing a song about the vastness of space and then they start harvesting your organs.
Did somebody say...organs...
That's how vampires get in the door. Don’t fall for it.
No, we use more subtle methods...
(No elaboration shall be provided.)
I'd be more suspicious of them telling me life exists on Venus, specifically. Last I heard it was a hot-ass gaseous atmosphere made of acid. My money is still on Europa.
Boy, have I got news for you!
/j
I'd be hella suspicious untill he left while not selling me anything
Religion people are trying to sell you stuff too so same difference
Wouldnt happen. Scientists are too in love with the possibility they are wrong. Little room for evangelism
Only because they often are... which is what makes science so great. If everything was thought to be correct, what good would testing and new discovery be? The fact that scientists have historically been wrong drives scientists to prove other scientists wrong.
The scientific method:
- Make a guess
- Prove yourself wrong, or get someone else to do it
- Repeat
/s
They call it “true love,” if I’m not mistaken.
"Is life on Venus coming to kill us?"
"Oh, no, these are microorganis-"
Shuts door
Right, please tell me. Is this just a meme thing or do people actually knock on other people's doors to try to convert them to their religion?
And does this only happen, bizarrely, in the country with the highest number of gun-owning cowards?
It just seems such an odd combination
Ever heard of Jehovah's witnesses? Or Mormons going on their mission? They aren't constant here, but they are definitely a thing in the Netherlands.
It does. It got to the point I explained the concept of trial by combat to them, and said if they really believed, they would fight me-me armed them not.
Never worked.
So I got a grab bag of cheap sex toys to keep by the door the moment I got my first place (was homeless when I turned 18) and 'would you like to talk about Jesus' became 'trick or treat'.
That worked.
Nope. I'm in Canada and it happens here too.
New Zealand here, I've only had it once in the last 5 years and it was awesome, they turned out to be from a doomsday cult that believes God is a living Korean woman or something like that.
I’ve found the fastest ways to get religious folk that knock on my door to scurry in a hurry is:
- offer to listen as long as they like but only after they roast a bowl with you
- tell them to pay their fucking taxes
Now if science folk came knockin that would be great over a roasted bowl as well
https://www.theguardian.com/science/1999/aug/24/spaceexploration
"I [Carl Sagan] can remember one occasion, taking a shower with my wife while high, in which I had an idea on the origins and invalidities of racism in terms of gaussian distribution curves," wrote the former Cornell University professor. "I wrote the curves in soap on the shower wall, and went to write the idea down."
Yes. Yes I would, come in, come in!
Yeah, uhh, come in, how'd you know I was a space nerd? Would you also like to scope out my house to rob it later? That's fine too, as long as you tell me about this cool space fact.
Instructions unclear, we now have door to door scientologists instead
Pretty sure I'm allowed to shoot those in this state.
I'd have so many questions. In a good way. They wouldn't have time to visit anyone else that day.
This idea made my pp hard
i wonder what has happened that enabled or hindered science to not become evangelical
What do you think it would it look like if it did?
Didn't Pythagoras have a cult or some shit?
Also, I would say a lot of modern medicine, since the discovery of germ theory, has included a sizeable portion of evangelism. How do you think they got people to start washing their hands or taking antibiotics?
Have you heard of dark energy and matter?
No what is it?
Well, we really don't know but it's there. Trust us.
Sounds made up like some guy coming back to life. Fuck off.
"Trust us" lol nobody says that. It's more like "This is our greatest hypothesis to fit the data. If you come up with something better we'd love to hear it"
Phosphine
"No thanks. I don't believe in Greek goddesses."
I would do that... but a bit of linux evangelism would slip in as well 😹
It remember me an old story
"please, just leave me alone"
Is there any possibility of life in the atmosphere venus?
It's a two-edged sword: yes, you're probably doing great work, but on the other hand it might come off as annoying and give science a bad name.
I wouldn't mind some random knock on my door once a week or so by someone who wants to sit down and teach me some random scientific principle or spit out fast facts. One would have to watch out for false priests though. "did you know that vaccines are nanobots injected to support Bill Gates?" or something.
Anti Commercial AI thingy
I'd pat them on the helmet.
YouTube already does this in a less invasive way. "Here's this random video on theory crafting how we can put life on Mars that we just thought you might like."
